Aug182011

Sparklines Stats Chart Now Available for WordPress.com Blogs

WordPress.com just made announcements about new Stats features. “The first one affects everyone with a WordPress.com blog. And, the second is just for those who have marked their blogs Private,” announced Andy Skelton on WordPress.com blog.

When you are logged into WordPress.com, the WordPress.com Admin Bar visible at the top of your screen now shows a tiny stats chart called “sparkline”. You will only see the sparkline on your own blogs.

“The chart consists of 48 upright bars representing the last 48 hours of page views for the current blog. Darker lines indicate nighttime according to the blog’s time zone setting. This is just to give you a rough overview of recent activity. The chart is also a link to the Site Stats page so you’re that much closer to the full picture,” explains Skelton .

Here’s a screenshot of my admin bar:

The sparkline has been available to self-hosted WordPress.org users through Jetpack for several months.

“Private blogs, which can be viewed only by users chosen by the administrator, now track the page views of all of their users. Traditionally we have omitted the views attributed to a blog’s own users because stats were meant to reflect the activity of the general public. However, this meant that private blogs had no useful stats reports. This change will be especially useful for private blogs that have many users,” Skelton stated.

Deepak Gupta is a IT & Web Consultant. He is the founder and CEO of diTii.com & DIT Technologies, where he's engaged in providing Technology Consultancy, Design and Development of Desktop, Web and Mobile applications using various tools and softwares. Sign-up for the Email for daily updates. Google+ Profile.